Too bad about that whole “gaping cavities of torn flesh” thing, though.

Via technabob, who marvels at the things that people do to make themselves unattractive to everyone except gaping-cavity-of-torn-flesh fetishists.

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Actually, I’m 50/50 on whether or not that’s a girl in the Beast Man costume. But those sure are some feminine legs.

Via Look at this Frakking Geekster, who knows a girl when he sees one. And they happen to be wearing a t-shirt that says, “I’m a girl.”

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Yet it’s likely I’d appreciate and enjoy my time with the toy approximately 17 times as much.

Via blastr, formerly Sci Fi Wire, who came in second place behind SyFy in the Lamest Re-Branding Effort Contest.

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Behold the winner of MAKE’s Gadget Freak Design Contest:

Rick Prescott outfitted a Nerf® Vulcan EBF-25 machine gun with an array of Devantech TPA81 thermopile sensors, all controlled by an ATmega168, to create this wicked Aliens-style heat-tracking autocannon:

“An idea sparked in my mind one day while walking the toy gun isle in a store with my kid and later that evening learning of the workings of a thermopile array while surfing the internet.”

Translation: “Nerf blahbitty-blahbitty thermopile blah blah HA HA I SHOT YOU SEVEN TIMES WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING!”

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That it didn’t at all look like any car made in the 1980s.

Via Unique Daily, whose El Camino didn’t get any better-looking after getting fins, either.

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Way to win the internets, costume-creator Brandon Barker. Even if you are still rocking a MySpace page.

Via Look at this Frakking Geekster, who would totally check out the “making of” pics of the costumes on Brandon’s MySpace, if only he had been recently inoculated for stupid.*

* Take appropriate precautions when visiting MySpace. Contact your physician after prolonged contact. In case of eye trauma, dial 911 immediately.

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Where in Tampa Bay? Oh. You know. Out towards the middle, or thereabouts. Yeah. The middle. Anyway, you’ve got time, right? Ha, ha, ha! Fake convivial laughter! Ha, ha!

Via The Daily What, who’s all like, “Hey, guy. Get a job.”

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So, why then, would I post My Little Solid Snake by Fenrienne on deviantART (aside from its obvious artistic merits)?

Two words: PONY BEARD. (With simulated smoking action!)

Via Nerd Approved, who once grew a miniature pony beard.

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Danny’s most recent request was to bake some doodleberry pie. Obviously, we didn’t have any doodleberries handy. We went to Costco and bought blueberries instead.

Doodleberry?

Um, first on the docket for Danny’s cooking lessons: the merits of not cooking with poop.

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Via Ugliest Tattoos, who wishes this guy luck getting laid once he’s out of his early 20s, when “lack-of-forethought” and “random acts of stupidity”  stop being attractive qualities.

* If I’m going to end the sentence with a preposition anyway, then why bother making the rest of the sentence all grammatically-correct with an objective “whom”? Nah, I’d much rather make the sentence more “natural” for the sake of the punchline. And then deflate the punchline with long side-notes about grammar. (MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.)

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